Locate with exclude?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Feb 18 10:09:48 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I generally use locate to find a file, but I have /mnt/FC4root
> and /mnt/FC4/home, and dozens of 'finds' are reported that are not relevant.
> I'd like to use locate, telling it to ignore/mnt/FC4*, but nothing in the man
> pages tells me that this is possible.
>
> Does anyone have a solution to searching while excluding large areas like
> this?
Check /etc/updatedb.conf
You probably will want to customize on of the PRUNE* variables.
Ralf
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